CCAvenue®: CCAvenue Reseller Program FAQs

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Reseller FAQs

Who is the Avenues Reseller Program for?

The Reseller Program is designed for web hosting providers, site developers, ISVs, technical consultants - anyone in the business of providing e-commerce Web solutions

How much does the Avenues Reseller Program cost?

There are no setup fees for the Avenues Reseller Program however a minimum investment of Rs. 10,000/- will be required of the Reseller towards the purchase of 2 credits. The reseller may choose to purchase more than 2 credits if he so desires depending upon the volume of business he expects to achieve.

What is my role as an Avenues Reseller?

As a reseller, you are responsible for marketing and selling CCAvenue products in your region. CCAvenue will provide you with every reseller a reseller center from where they can assign and track client accounts. CCAvenue marketing and sales kits will be provided to aid the reseller in signing up as many customers as possible.

It is the reseller's responsibility to convert each sign up into a live CCAvenue account. You must follow up with your customer and request them to send in the agreement and other documentation required as soon as possible to complete the sign-up process.

What does this program allow me to do?

As an Avenues Reseller, you can purchase 2 or more credits valued at Rs. 5000/- each. The credits can be applied to CCAvenue's product as follows.

One Economy account (valued at Rs. 7,500/-) = 1 credit (Net value Rs. 5,000/-)
You earn Rs 2,500/-!

One Premium account (valued at Rs. 25,000/-) = 4 credits (Net value Rs. 20,000/-)
You earn Rs 5,000/-!

One Privilege account (valued at Rs. 40,000/-) = 6 credits (Net value Rs. 30,000/-)
You earn Rs 10,000/-!

Credits Usage for Avenues Accounts
CCAvenue Account Type	Credits Utilized	Your Costs*	What You Collect From Your Clients
Economy Account	1 credit	Rs. 5,000/-	Rs. 7,500/-
Premium Account	4 credits	Rs. 20,000/-	Rs. 25,000/-
Privilege Account	6 credits	Rs. 30,000/-	Rs. 40,000/-
Note: Minimum investment of Rs. 10,000/- is required towards purchase of 2 credits.

*Service Tax and Education Cess 10.30% extra

You enjoy the benefits of huge earnings as outlined in the table below. You may choose to pass on a portion of this discount to your customers or keep the entire profit for yourself.

The CCAvenue account can be assigned by the reseller to his clients so they may use CCAvenue payment processes to accept online payments from their website.

What services are available to sell and how much do they cost?

The Avenues Reseller Program enables its resellers to achieve huge profits by selling CCAvenue's high quality payment processing services with easy integration and customization features at a reasonable price.

The retail price for a CCAvenue Economy Account is Rs. 7500/-, Premium Account is Rs. 25,000/- and the Privilege account is priced at Rs. 40,000/-.

Credits Usage for Avenues Accounts
CCAvenue Account Type	Credits Utilized	Your Costs	What You Collect From Your Clients
Economy Account	1 credit	Rs. 5,000/-	Rs. 7,500/-
Premium Account	4 credits	Rs. 20,000/-	Rs. 25,000/-
Privilege Account	6 credits	Rs. 30,000/-	Rs. 40,000/-
Note: Minimum investment of Rs. 10,000/- is required towards purchase of 2 credits.

*Service Tax and Education Cess 10.30% extra

Please also note that one live (unutilized) credit is required in stock at all times to keep the CCAvenue reseller account in activated mode.

HOW IT WORKS:-
a) To activate your reseller account you need to pay towards 2 credits a total of Rs.10,000/-
b) When you get the first customer who would like to purchase an Economy account, you can apply 1 credit. If the first customer wishes to purchase a Premium or a Privilege account, you will need to buy 3 or 5 additional credits respectively.
c) For the Second customer & subsequent customer's you would have to make a purchase of 1 credit for an economy account, 4 Credits for a Premium account and 6 Credits for a Privilege Account.
d) You cannot use the 'Deposit Credit' in stock if you wish to continue your affiliation to the CCAvenue reseller program.

What is the incentive for me to join the Program?

Avenues Reseller Program offers a discount on CCAvenue Accounts to its resellers. As an Avenues Reseller Program member, you can purchase credits which may be applied to CCAvenue Accounts at a discount to resell at face value or pass the savings on to your customers.

Avenues provides its Reseller tremendous earning potential by offering huge discounts on CCAvenue accounts to them: Please check the following link for details on what you can EARN.

What other benefits does the Avenues Reseller Program offer?

You get complete account management functionality to track credits purchased, assigned and remaining credit balances. In addition to this the reseller gains:
The ability to enhance product value with India's best payment processing solution.
The ability to offer complete, end-to-end, e-commerce solutions to your customers, including acceptance of online payments, without having to accept the risk on behalf of the merchant.
The ability to bundle CCAvenue payment processing solution with your services as you offer more complete solutions.
The ability to earn additional revenue from each customer through the CCAvenue Reseller program.

How can I get more information about the Program?

For more information, you may mail us contact@CCAvenue.com, or call + 91-22 - 67425555 / 26000816 / 32913622 / 66920419

How do I utilize my credits to assign a URL?

To assign URLs, you must login to your Avenues Reseller's account using the username and password provided to you in the email sent to you by the Avenues Administrator.

Simply click on the 'Assign URLs' link to register a URL. You will be prompted to enter the required registration details select the type of account (whether economy or premium) and submit. Depending upon the type of account selected either an Economy account, a Premium account or a Privilege account is assigned and accordingly either 1 credit (in case of Economy) or 4 credits (in case of Premium) or 6 credits (in case of Privilege) will be utilized.

The CCAvenue administrative personnel will review the details of the registration within 24 - 48 hours and on approving the registration, a confirmatory email will be sent to you and your customer. In case the registration is disapproved for any reason the account will be aborted and the corresponding number of credits will be reverted back to you.

It is the reseller's responsibility to convert each sign up into a live CCAvenue account. You must follow up with your customer and request them to send in the agreement and other documentation required as soon as possible to complete the sign-up process.

How do I view assigned URLs?

To view the list of assigned URLs click on the 'View AssignedURLs ' link. Here you will be displayed the list of all registrations done by you and the status of their account - whether approved or not. This page will also display an 'Abort' link to enable the reseller to abort URL assignments.

How do I abort an assigned URLs?

To view the list of assigned URLS click on the 'View Assigned URLs ' link. Here you will be displayed the list of all registrations made by you and the status of their account. An 'Abort' link is provided alongside each assigned URL with a approval status of 'In Progress'. By clicking on this link, the reseller can abort any of these URL assignments. Upon abortion the corresponding number of credits will be reverted back to you.

Please note that once aborted the URL cannot be re-activated. You must re-register the URL if you desire to re-initialize the account. The abort option is not available for URLs which have already been activated by the CCAvenue personnel.

What is the 'Confirm' link for?

The 'View Assigned URLs' page displays the list of all registration made by you and the status of the account. When an URL has been activated by the CCAvenue personnel the Activated status will be displayed along with a 'Confirm' link. You need to click on this link to give final activation clearance from your end.

Why is it that I cannot utilize my 'Deposit Credit'?

If you wish to continue your association with the CCAvenue Reseller Program then you must at all times maintain at least a one credit balance (sometimes referred to as a 'Deposit Credit').

If you choose to end your association with the CCAvenue Reseller Program then we will refund you the amount of Rs 2500/- towards your 'Deposit Credit' after 90 days of your intimation of termination of your CCAvenue Reseller Account. You can terminate your Reseller account by sending an email to accounts@CCAvenue.com with the subject line 'TERMINATE MY RESELLER ACCOUNT'.

Terms & Conditions Applicable to the Avenues Reseller Program:

The aim of the reseller program from Avenues is to help the web hosting, domain registration and e-commerce solutions segment to add value to the service offering as well as complete their products / solution suites by offering online payment solutions.

Avenues intends to implement this reseller program in a just and transparent way so that the end user of the solution faces least number of issues, operationally or commercially.

The Avenues reseller program is investment based, offering resellers up-front discount rewards upon their ability to bundle the payment gateway solution products with their existing sales program. The program is 100% web based and all actions from the Avenues end as well as the reseller end will be in a self-service environment. A comprehensive back-office login will allow the reseller to efficiently manage his account as well as keep him posted about his sales with Avenues. This will allow the reseller to go about his normal business and allow Avenues to service his customer, keeping him informed on the status by email.

The Avenues Reseller Program

Minimum Investment Requirements:
There are NO SET UP FEES for the Avenues Reseller Program however a minimum investment of Rs. 10,000/- will be required of the Reseller towards the purchase of 2 credits. The reseller may choose to purchase more than 2 credits if he so desires depending upon the volume of business he expects to achieve.

Rules Of Credit Usage:

a) A credit valued at Rs 5,000/- may be used for CCAvenue Account.

The credits can be applied to CCAvenue product as follows.

Credits Usage for Avenues Accounts
CCAvenue Account Type	Credits Utilized	Your Costs	What You Collect From Your Clients
Economy Account	1credit	Rs. 5,000/-	Rs. 7,500/-
Premium Account	4 credits	Rs. 20,000/-	Rs. 25,000/-
Privilege Account	6 credits	Rs. 30,000/-	Rs. 40,000/-

*Service Tax and Education Cess 10.30% extra

Avenues shall be introducing other payment solutions aimed at various other segments of industry. The credits purchased by the resellers may be used for enrollment of any of these products as per the schemes announced at that time.

b)Avenues shall accept payments only directly from the reseller and not from the resellers customers for purchase of any product sold through the reseller program. No credits will be given for discount / commission due to the reseller if any proposed customer of a reseller directly buys or enrolls for CCAvenue product. Avenues shall not entertain any requests for such credit of commission.

c)The reseller shall not be entitled for any commission / share in the credit card or net-banking transaction discount rate payable by his customer to Avenues.

d)The reseller shall not be entitled for any commission / share in the annual software up gradation fees payable by his customer to Avenues.

e)The reseller shall not be entitled for any commission / share in the event that his end customer eventually upgrades his CCAvenue or other account from an Economy type to a Premium one, or switches to another product of Avenues, which is not included at the time in the Avenues reseller Program.

f)The reseller shall not represent a price which is higher than the listed product price / recommended selling price of any Avenues product on his/her website, sales material and other published handouts in paper or electronic format. However, if the reseller has bundled the Avenues product with other product or service offerings of his/her own the same shall not apply.

g)Avenues shall not entertain any disputes between resellers on client ownership. The decision of the end customer is final. Avenues shall also not make any representation to the end customer, which would be termed as a recommendation to use particular reseller's services.

h)Credit usage towards enrollment of a new customer for any Avenues product will be considered as confirmed sales.

i)Any reseller who opts for using CCAvenue services for their own website shall ensure that they use one account for one URL registered with Avenues. Any sharing /sublease of a single CCAvenue account or any Avenues product beyond its licensed usage shall lead to closure and forfeiture of the reseller's account.